This isn't so much an actual character concept as a random tangent or two that occurred to me---perhaps this should go in its own thread. First, I wanted a canine shifter shaman/thief character based on my RL dog, an ex-feral from a Native American reservation. I haven't done it due to lack of rules mastery and no real game to play in. But while looking at the rules for canine shifters, I noticed a sentence that sidetracked my attention a bit. It says,( roughly, I don't have exact words handy) "Only medium and large breed dogs have been found. There are no poodle or chihuahua shifters". What hit me there is, not all poodles are toy poodles! Standard Poodles are at least as big as a Labrador and tend to be more leggy. So now that has me wanting to make a Standard Poodle shifter " just because ". Face comes to mind, due simply to the insane amounts of grooming such dogs require, or you could go with the fact that actually, they aren't so soft in personality ( there was a guy who ran a team of them in the Iditarod for several years just to prove this point. He didn't win, but he always finished and was never dead last, which is more than many husky teams could say, and I personally knew one who would show up to the dog park towing his 200+ lb owner in a wheelchair, wrestle his three pit bull buddies to a standstill and trot off cheerfully as though nothing happened at the end).
So, any suggestions on either my original plan or what to do with a poodle shifter? Feel free to PM or whatever.
